Christopher Hooley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Christopher Hooley

British mathematician

Date of Birth: 07-Aug-1928

Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 13-Dec-2018

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Christopher Hooley (7 August 1928 – 13 December 2018) was a British mathematician, professor of mathematics at Cardiff University.
He did his PhD under the supervision of Albert Ingham.
He won the Adams Prize of Cambridge University in 1973.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1983.
He was also a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. He showed that the Hasse principle holds for non-singular cubic forms in at least nine variables.He proved one of Emil Artin's two conjectures, Artin's conjecture on primitive roots, conditionally, assuming the generalized Riemann hypothesis.